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Title: St Bernardo
Author: RAMOS GRACILIANO
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 12/11/2019
Imprint: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Price: $26.00
Publishing status: Active
In 1941, a national literary poll in Brazil named Graciliano Ramos one of the country’s ten greatest novelists-one of only four living authors on the list. His reputation has only increased there in the sixty years since his death. Brazilian readers fight over which of his novels is their favorite. Now St. Bernardo, his second-to-last novel, has been freshly translated for North American readers. This gritty, dryly funny book tells the story of Paulo Hon rio, a field hand who learns to read and write in jail, emerging with the ambition of buying and restoring to greatness the now-decrepit property where he was once a day laborer. St. Bernardo, named for his ranch, is the memoir of his rise and fall, written in his own rough-hewn voice. Flavored with subtle ironies and rich local idioms, St. Bernardo will appeal to readers of William Faulkner and Juan Rulfo, anyone who loves a tragicomic story of a striving outsider and self-made man, ruthless and tender in turns.
ISBN: 9781681373850
Pages: 248